LATEST ISSUE

The final AJ of the year looks back at the past 12 months and forward to the year ahead. We review 2018’s key architectural events and trends and preview the stories set to dominate the new year. We also pick out the people to watch in 2019 and highlight eight key buildings set to complete. And to make sure you’ve been paying attention, there’s a Christmas quiz on the events that shook the architectural world in 2018 and a chance to play spot the building. PLUS a building study of Karakusevic ..

RELIEF WORK SCUPPERED

The tsunami relief work of RIBA-backed building charity Build Aid in Sri Lanka has been scuppered by intense local corruption and bureaucracy, it has emerged. A group of seven third-year students from the University of Bath has returned to the UK with a litany of horror stories following their mission to assist the aid effort.

Councillors have thrown out separate proposals from Broadway Malyan and OWAL Architects to replace a south London garage and low-rise offices with a 23-storey residential tower and a 10-storey mixed-use scheme

Roger Scruton, chair of the government’s new Building Better, Building Beautiful commission , has attacked contemporary architecture in a provocative speech calling for a return to traditional design based on the Classical orders

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